On 05/10/2007, Andrew Wood <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I've installed Audacity to edit audio captured from my > mini-disk. The sound card I have is based on a C-Media CMI8738 chipset. > There's only one mic socket on the card so I thought this would be a > doddle to sample. When it didn't work I thought it was the card so I > swapped it for another similar card/chipset. > > There is absolutely no sound detectable coming from the mic. The drivers > I'm using are the standard ones which are provided with Fedora 7. > > A look at the Audacity wiki, and the ALSA wiki has provided no clue as > to what the problem or fix could be. Any suggestions? ALSA support in Audacity is fragile. Audacity in Fedora is a beta release, because there hasn't been any final release since the old 1.2.6, which includes only broken/incomplete ALSA support. When you start Audacity and enter the "Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O" menu, what recording device do you choose? What input channel do you choose in the main window? A common problem is to have an external mixer mute a channel with Audacity not doing any un-mute operation. Does the mic work with other audio input tools?
